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‘We didn’t go with that company’

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August 21, 2025
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Apple TV+ Seth Rogen and Ron Howard on the set of 'The Studio'

In Ron Howard‘s Emmy-nominated guest stint on The Studio as a fictionalized version of himself, he receives a note from the film studio that he does not take well.

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So, Entertainment Weekly had to know, as the acclaimed director of movies such as A Beautiful Mind and Apollo 13, what is the most unbelievable note he’s ever gotten from a studio?

“Oh God,” he says with a laugh. “When we were trying to sell Splash, [producer] Brian Grazer and I, we were going to every studio, they were all turning us down, and one said, ‘Does it really have to be a mermaid?'”

At this, Howard pauses before deadpanning, “We didn’t go with that company. We decided, yeah, it really should be a mermaid.”

The 1984 romantic fantasy film stars Tom Hanks, Daryl Hannah, John Candy, and Eugene Levy, and famously follows a young man (Hanks) who falls in love with a mysterious woman who is secretly a mermaid (Hannah). In addition to being a critical and commercial success, the film was also nominated for an Academy Award for Best Original Screenplay, so it’s safe to say it all worked out in the end, studio notes notwithstanding.

On The Studio, Howard is one of several major real-life Hollywood players who play a fictional version of themselves in the Apple TV+ show. The list also includes Martin Scorsese, Charlize Theron, Dave Franco, Zoë Kravitz, Olivia Wilde, and many more.

The Emmy nomination marks the first time that Howard, who started his career as an actor before transitioning to directing and producing, has been nominated for his acting chops specifically. He told PEOPLE that he was “getting a kick out of it,” and joked that maybe he “should be talking to the acting department at CAA … maybe I should be talking to the acting branch.”

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Seth Rogen and Ron Howard on the set of ‘The Studio’

“I play an a–hole version of myself,” Howard also told the outlet of the role. “Apparently, it went over. I have many noms and even some wins on the producing and directing side, but first nom as an actor, which is kind of funny.”

Technically, Howard has won three of his previous 13 Emmy nods. He won Outstanding Documentary or Nonfiction Special for Jim Henson Idea Man in 2024, Outstanding Comedy Series for Arrested Development in 2004, and Outstanding Miniseries for From the Earth to the Moon in 1998.

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Next up for Howard is the release of Eden. Based on a true story, the thriller follows a group of outsiders who settle on a remote island in the Galápagos Islands only to discover their greatest threat isn’t the brutal climate or deadly wildlife, but each other. It stars Jude Law, Ana de Armas, Vanessa Kirby, Sydney Sweeney, Daniel Brühl, Felix Kammerer, Toby Wallace, and Richard Roxburgh.

Eden hits theaters Friday.

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